Just in case anyone out there actually believes Ground Zero and this Jewish equivalent to Holocaust denial, some background is in order. This thesis that Palestinians didn't exist was crude Israeli propaganda in the 1950s, but then the Israeli government stopped promoting it when it became embarrassingly obvious they were lying. A couple of decades later, Joan Peters tried to revive the myth with her book "Time Immemorial". The book was completely trashed in reviews in England and Israel (where it was considered an embarrassment). However, in this country it was met with acclaim. Norman Finkelstein demolished the book as part of his Ph.D. thesis, and then in his book "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict". An excerpt:
<<< ... That a scholarly work meets with critical acclaim would hardly be news, were it not for the fact that From Time Immemorial is among the most spectacular frauds every published on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a field littered with crass propaganda, forgeries, and fakes, this is no mean distinction. But Peters's book has thoroughly earned it.
The fraud in Peters's book is so pervasive and systematic that it is hard to pluck out a single thread without getting entangled in the whole unravelling fabric. To begin with, the fraud falls into two basic categories. First, the evidence that Peters adduces to document massive illegal Arab immigration into Palestine is almost entirely falsified. Second, the conclusions that Peters draws from her demographic study of Palestine's indigenous Arab population are not borne out by the data she presents. To confound the reader further, Peters resorts to plagiarism ... >>>
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